Robinson tells it teasingly through a series ... the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the world to us." Gilead resists rapid consumption. It rewards patience and devotion ...
A primordial sun also shines upon Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of Robinson’s Gilead quartet (Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack) ...
Time is going. I’ll be 82. Gotta go." The novel Home is a fragment of the classic Gilead series of Marilynne Robinson. The background of the book is set in 1956 in a fictional rural area of Iowa.